YouTube, Vimeo remove My Pillow CEO's conspiratorial pro-Trump film

My Pillow CEO Michael J. Lindell faced resistance from several major digital platforms following the release Friday of a film he made about purported fraud in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. YouTube and Vimeo removed copies of the film, “Absolute Proof,” from their platforms, and Facebook applied labels to posts Mr. Lindell made about his movie warning users about its contents. The two-hour-long film, which could easily be found elsewhere Saturday, consists of Mr. Lindell rehashing several conspiracy theories about the election that he has been amplifying since it ended. YouTube pulled the video for violating its rules, but not before it had been viewed on the platform at least 16,000 times, according to a cached version of the page where it appeared. “Per our presidential election integrity policy, we remove content uploaded after the safe harbor deadline that advances false claims that widespread fraud, errors or glitches changed the outcome of the 2020 U.S. presidential election,” YouTube spokesperson Alex Joseph told The Washington Times. “We removed this video and its reuploads in accordance with this policy.” Rival service Vimeo removed a copy of the film as well, “for violating Vimeo‘s policies on posting content that claims that the 2020…
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